Programs for Professionals

Fri, Jul 31

Online Training

Embodied Relational Sex Therapy (ERST) Training

What is love in this time of coronavirus? How has COVID affected our relationships, particularly our domestic relationships where body-to-body intimacy can be dangerous, especially if one person has to leave the house to work or shop while the other stays home to care for family? How does this affect raising children when you’re afraid to comfort them when they’re hurt or scared? And what happens to kissing, hugging, holding, or making love? These are our new intimacy issues where touching and entering each other’s personal space can be hazardous to health or even life.

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Given the new reality of our current global pandemic, I’ve designed a virtual format for the transformational ERST training. This Zoom-based program is a 3-weekend, 10-hour webinar per weekend, for a total of 30 hours and 30 CE credits for professionals. This ERST Virtual training will focus on emotional, relational, and sexual health and I am opening it to non-professionals as well. You may come as a couple or invite a partner to share this experience with you at no extra fee as long as you share a single screen. Here are the details.

ERST Virtual for Two

Embodied Relational Sex Therapy Virtual Training For Two

Online Zoom Three-weekend Training Program in August 2020 (starts July 31st)

Join as an Individual, as a Couple, with a Friend or Colleague

Come by yourself, or with a romantic, platonic, or collegial partner. No experiential exercises during the session will involve sexual activity.

30 hours, 30 CEs for professionals

This is a Special Offer - Therapists: Here's your opportunity to invite your partner to a transformational growth experience at no extra charge and enhance your professional training at the same time! There is no extra fee for any two participants as long as you share one screen.

Whether you join by yourself, or with a romantic, platonic, or collegial partner, this workshop will explore interpersonal dynamics that can enhance any relationship, sexual or non-sexual. These are stressful times. Research shows that men and women respond differently to stress. Men tend to externalize stress as anger; women tend to internalize stress as anxiety, guilt or shame. How do these gender differences affect our intimate relations, whether in an opposite sex or same sex relationship? Even in this time of non-binary gender awareness our coping strategies may differ.

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During the meetings, I give short talks on relevant research and anecdotal evidence. We do body-based experiential processing and participants have opportunities to process their own emotional, sexual and relational repair and pleasure enhancement.

Methods

Join this workshop by yourself

Those working on their own will have opportunities to explore their sexual and/or non-sexual relationships through relational imagery, memories re-awakened, and interactive group processes with other participants on the webinar screen.

Join with a partner

You do not have to be in a sexual relationship with your partner. You only need to be willing to share personal feelings, deepen the quality of your relationship, and support each other’s emotional, relational, and sexual healing and growth.

This holistic training is didactic and experiential. The experiential processing is based in Gestalt practices. The emphasis is on body-based present-centered experiential processing to encourage body-awareness and the integration of self, sexuality, and pleasure through openness, authenticity, empathy, and relational attunement.

We work with the breath, sensory awareness, intuitive sensing, memories, emotions, and stress regulation. The aim is to heal shame, embrace authenticity, and broaden expansive pleasures. This work is supported by the latest developments in interpersonal neurobiology, grounded in a solid understanding of human sexual biodiversity, and attuned to the critical roles of pleasure and play in emotional, physical, sexual, and relational health and happiness.

Schedule

Friday, July 31 – Saturday, August 1, 2020

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Sexuality at the Core of the Whole Person:

Defining embodied relational sexuality and experientially tracing its shaping in childhood and adolescence to adult pleasure and happiness.

Evoking Authentic Love and Desire:

Registration includes all three weekends. There is no registration for individual weekends.

Fri, Jul 31

Online Training

Embodied Relational Sex Therapy (ERST) Training

Supervision in Embodied Relational Sex Therapy™

I am available to psychotherapists and sex therapists in both individual and monthly group supervision at my office or via Skype or Zoom video conferencing. I am an AASECT Certified Sex Therapist and Clinical Supervisor and AASECT Approved Provider of Continuing Education.

True love is not just about being true to another. The most fulfilling love is when you are also true to yourself. You want to be loved for who you truly are and not for who you can pretend to be.

Being romantic is a great way for partners to play. When one person is attentive to the other with a lighthearted and lively spirit and the other reciprocates in some way—laughs at the joke or smiles back and stays engaged—they've connected with their inner playmates.